Attachment and Mindful Parenting Skills Development (AMPSD)Training
"Unlock the Power of Connection: Master Attachment & Mindful Parenting at the AMPSD Workshop!"
Location: Onsite/ Community Visits/ Virtual Zoom
Estimated length: 12 hrs
May 21-22 @ 9:00am – 4:30pm CT
Registration - http://www.integrative-mindfulness-inc.com/registration-form.html
This workshop focuses on parenting as it relates to child development. The science behind how attachment evolves, how children’s brains develop and how neuroplasticity works are covered. Parenting and attachment, the impact parenting preferences have on secure attachment and the value of responsive parenting approaches are all discussed.
The Four Attachment Styles and the Six Stages and the Five Keys to Secure Attachment are presented. The course reviews parental alienation behaviours, estrangement, justified resistance, aggressive parenting and how high-conflict family dynamics can have a short- or long-term impact on children's mental and emotional health. Practical techniques to adapt to a child’s resistance to parental contact and overcome internalized false beliefs about parenting are taught. In addition, the workshop offers strategies to confront household anger, revenge, fear, alcohol and other drugs (AOD) addiction, loss, grief and trauma, and embarrassment.
The science of rewiring brains to increase positive emotions and practical techniques and strategies to teach mindfulness-based coping, self-care and resiliency skills are included. Specific mindfulness-based games and exercises to increase happiness and play, while diminishing anger, unhealthy arguments, tantrums and fights are reviewed. The workshop teaches mindfulness practices for reducing parental stress and cultivating self-compassion, and mindfulness presentations. Mindful dialogue to address parenting issues as well as mindfulness and meditation exercises to improve loving-kindness in a challenging home is included.
What participants will learn:
Location: Onsite/ Community Visits/ Virtual Zoom
Estimated length: 12 hrs
May 21-22 @ 9:00am – 4:30pm CT
Registration - http://www.integrative-mindfulness-inc.com/registration-form.html
This workshop focuses on parenting as it relates to child development. The science behind how attachment evolves, how children’s brains develop and how neuroplasticity works are covered. Parenting and attachment, the impact parenting preferences have on secure attachment and the value of responsive parenting approaches are all discussed.
The Four Attachment Styles and the Six Stages and the Five Keys to Secure Attachment are presented. The course reviews parental alienation behaviours, estrangement, justified resistance, aggressive parenting and how high-conflict family dynamics can have a short- or long-term impact on children's mental and emotional health. Practical techniques to adapt to a child’s resistance to parental contact and overcome internalized false beliefs about parenting are taught. In addition, the workshop offers strategies to confront household anger, revenge, fear, alcohol and other drugs (AOD) addiction, loss, grief and trauma, and embarrassment.
The science of rewiring brains to increase positive emotions and practical techniques and strategies to teach mindfulness-based coping, self-care and resiliency skills are included. Specific mindfulness-based games and exercises to increase happiness and play, while diminishing anger, unhealthy arguments, tantrums and fights are reviewed. The workshop teaches mindfulness practices for reducing parental stress and cultivating self-compassion, and mindfulness presentations. Mindful dialogue to address parenting issues as well as mindfulness and meditation exercises to improve loving-kindness in a challenging home is included.
What participants will learn:
- How to strengthen attachment with a child so they want to work together.
- The benefits and advantages of mindful parenting and how to use it.
- Practical approaches to releasing false parenting beliefs.
- Skills for responding empathically to children’s negative feelings with compassion and loving-kindness.
- Mindfulness strategies to manage difficult emotions and keep calm during stressful situations in the family.
- How to engage with your family in simple yet meaningful ways.
- How to maintain a mindful parent-child connection.
- Effective tools to handle behavioural and emotional disorders of childhood and adolescence such as temper tantrums.
- Mindfulness-based parenting tools to use at home, in school and everywhere else when in contact with children.
- Mindfulness-based tools to support children help with stress and pain.
- How to use mindful and discipline strategies that teach kids self-management and emotional intelligence.
- The secret to real happiness as a parent.
- Ways to deal with a high-conflict household, confront unhelpful behaviours.
Anger Management & Coping Skills Development(AMCSD) Training Workshop
"Master Your Emotions: Unlock Powerful Anger Management & Coping Strategies at Our AMCSD Workshop!"
Location: Onsite/ Community Visits/ Virtual Meeting
Estimated length: 12 hrs
March 21-22 @ 9:00am – 4:30pm CT
Registration
http://www.integrative-mindfulness-inc.com/registration-form.html
This workshop provides an understanding of the cycle of anger and neurobiology. Common myths about anger and the fight or flight response are covered. The course focuses also on the principles of anger management and reviews de-escalation and mindfulness techniques to diffuse and address anger. It discusses how to manage anger in the workplace and at home, the 13 steps of anger management and the triple approach to dealing with angry people.
How to solve an anger problem by choosing the right solution is taught. In particular, the workshop introduces preparing a personal anger management plan, keeping a personal anger log and practicing self-care activities. The helpful role that cultivating positive thinking, empathy, self-compassion and mindfulness can have in managing anger is included.
Participants will have the opportunity to practice anger management activities such as a cognitive restructuring exercise during the workshop followed by debriefing.
What participants will learn:
Location: Onsite/ Community Visits/ Virtual Meeting
Estimated length: 12 hrs
March 21-22 @ 9:00am – 4:30pm CT
Registration
http://www.integrative-mindfulness-inc.com/registration-form.html
This workshop provides an understanding of the cycle of anger and neurobiology. Common myths about anger and the fight or flight response are covered. The course focuses also on the principles of anger management and reviews de-escalation and mindfulness techniques to diffuse and address anger. It discusses how to manage anger in the workplace and at home, the 13 steps of anger management and the triple approach to dealing with angry people.
How to solve an anger problem by choosing the right solution is taught. In particular, the workshop introduces preparing a personal anger management plan, keeping a personal anger log and practicing self-care activities. The helpful role that cultivating positive thinking, empathy, self-compassion and mindfulness can have in managing anger is included.
Participants will have the opportunity to practice anger management activities such as a cognitive restructuring exercise during the workshop followed by debriefing.
What participants will learn:
- Helpful ways of dealing with anger, gaining control and managing their anger with coping thoughts and strategies, mindfulness and relaxation techniques
- How anger works and the objective versus the subjective language of anger
- How to separate yourself from the anger problem with healthy thinking
- Ways to address an anger problem using constructive disagreement, building consensus and mindful solutions
- Physical techniques for anger management
- Mindfulness practices for anger management
- How to use cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) practice to reduce negative self-talk and problem solve
- Creative thought-stopping tools for emotional regulation
- Distraction and disengagement strategies
- De-escalation and mindfulness techniques
- How do develop and maintain a personal anger management plan
- Methods for cultivating a positive outlook
- How to improve self-compassion and empathy for others
Domestic Violence (DV) & Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Awareness & Action Training
"Empowerment through Education: Join Our Domestic Violence (DV) & Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) Awareness & Action Training to Create Safer Homes and Stronger Communities Today!"
Location: Onsite/ Community Visits/ Virtual Meeting
Estimated length: 13 hrs
May 13-14 @ 9:00am – 4:30pm
Registration - http://www.integrative-mindfulness-inc.com/registration-form.html
An introduction to domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) is provided in this workshop. Content covers the types of domestic and intimate partner violence and how individual factors, relationship factors, and community and societal factors relate to DV/IPV. The typical characteristics of perpetrators and victims as well as the dynamics of power, manipulation, and control in domestic and intimate partner violence are discussed.
Identifying DV and IPV and what trauma-informed care responses look like is reviewed. Included is how alcohol and other drugs (AOD) dependency, individual biases, victim-blaming and the survivor’s interpretation of DV/IPV in their culture all factor into the abuse.
The workshop also reviews the impact of ongoing universal issues such as COVID-19 on DV/IPV and deals with domestic and intimate partner violence in the LGBTQ Community. Finally, participants will discuss conflict resolution, fair fighting, and the qualities of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
What participants will learn:
Location: Onsite/ Community Visits/ Virtual Meeting
Estimated length: 13 hrs
May 13-14 @ 9:00am – 4:30pm
Registration - http://www.integrative-mindfulness-inc.com/registration-form.html
An introduction to domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence (IPV) is provided in this workshop. Content covers the types of domestic and intimate partner violence and how individual factors, relationship factors, and community and societal factors relate to DV/IPV. The typical characteristics of perpetrators and victims as well as the dynamics of power, manipulation, and control in domestic and intimate partner violence are discussed.
Identifying DV and IPV and what trauma-informed care responses look like is reviewed. Included is how alcohol and other drugs (AOD) dependency, individual biases, victim-blaming and the survivor’s interpretation of DV/IPV in their culture all factor into the abuse.
The workshop also reviews the impact of ongoing universal issues such as COVID-19 on DV/IPV and deals with domestic and intimate partner violence in the LGBTQ Community. Finally, participants will discuss conflict resolution, fair fighting, and the qualities of healthy and unhealthy relationships.
What participants will learn:
- The steps in handling and processing shame, anger and guilt
- The typical profile of an abuser and victim/survivor
- How to identify one’s biases
- To be more aware of indications of domestic violence and intimate partner violence
- How to address domestic violence in the workplace
- The impact of domestic violence within the family
- How to address domestic violence in the community
- Culturally competent responses to DV/IPV abuse
- The multidimensional impact of DV/IPV
- How victims can make a safety plan while living with abusive partners
- Safety planning for children and young people
- How to fight fairly and resolve conflicts
- What DV/IPV community resources are available
- How to practice mindfulness, relaxation skills and guided imagery for anxiety
Complexness of Grief, Loss, and Trauma (CGLT)
Navigating the Multifaceted Terrain of Grief, Loss, and Trauma: Unraveling the Complexness of CGLT
Location: Onsite/ Community Visits/ Virtual Meeting
Estimated length: 12 hrs
June 3 – June 4 @ 9:00 am - 4:30pm
Registration - http://www.integrative-mindfulness-inc.com/registration-form.html
The misconceptions about grieving and trauma and the types of losses and events that trigger grief and trauma are covered in this workshop. There is a review of the stages of grief and the normal progression through these stages versus pathological grieving. The different types of grief are explained: delayed, disenfranchised, ambiguous, inconclusive, complicated, anticipatory and trauma-based. The average response to grief and resilience is outlined.
The course looks at how children handle grief with a focus on typical child/adolescent reactions such as concrete or black-and-white thinking, a tendency to generalize, cyclical and repetitive behaviour and physical impacts. This also involves childhood trauma and grief, how loss manifests at each developmental stage and what behavioural changes to expect.
Information is offered about how acute and prolonged feelings come out of grief, loss and trauma, and the effects of trauma and bereavement on performance and behaviours. Importantly, there is an examination of how we hold grief in our body, the ways the body remembers and how residual grief in the body is demonstrated.
The workshop covers the big four reasons for grief during one’s life: death (including suicide), divorce, illness, and abuse. Course content incorporates the impact of an individual’s and community's grief and loss related to tragedies and disasters. In addition, special attention is paid to proven healing strategies and tools for normalizing anticipatory grief for the patient/client and for healing grief after the suicide by releasing feelings of responsibility.
What participants will learn:
Location: Onsite/ Community Visits/ Virtual Meeting
Estimated length: 12 hrs
June 3 – June 4 @ 9:00 am - 4:30pm
Registration - http://www.integrative-mindfulness-inc.com/registration-form.html
The misconceptions about grieving and trauma and the types of losses and events that trigger grief and trauma are covered in this workshop. There is a review of the stages of grief and the normal progression through these stages versus pathological grieving. The different types of grief are explained: delayed, disenfranchised, ambiguous, inconclusive, complicated, anticipatory and trauma-based. The average response to grief and resilience is outlined.
The course looks at how children handle grief with a focus on typical child/adolescent reactions such as concrete or black-and-white thinking, a tendency to generalize, cyclical and repetitive behaviour and physical impacts. This also involves childhood trauma and grief, how loss manifests at each developmental stage and what behavioural changes to expect.
Information is offered about how acute and prolonged feelings come out of grief, loss and trauma, and the effects of trauma and bereavement on performance and behaviours. Importantly, there is an examination of how we hold grief in our body, the ways the body remembers and how residual grief in the body is demonstrated.
The workshop covers the big four reasons for grief during one’s life: death (including suicide), divorce, illness, and abuse. Course content incorporates the impact of an individual’s and community's grief and loss related to tragedies and disasters. In addition, special attention is paid to proven healing strategies and tools for normalizing anticipatory grief for the patient/client and for healing grief after the suicide by releasing feelings of responsibility.
What participants will learn:
- Strategies to develop response and support systems for grieving individuals, families, and communities
- Ways to encourage people to talk about their trauma, grief and loss, and to develop current and future safety and security plans
- Methods to validate the expression of feelings and how to overcome irrational fears
- Positive strategies to support colleagues experiencing trauma, grief and loss
- About suitable scenarios for and alternatives to forgiveness, and positive techniques to support forgiveness practices
- How to cope positively with anniversaries, birthdays, holidays and other events
- Self-care tools for frontline workers and counsellors working with loss and grief
- Tools for healing grief after suicide and techniques for releasing feelings of responsibility
- How to successfully support friends and family members in grief
- Techniques for supporting others when disaster strikes
- How to approach disaster scenes
- Why pet loss is significant and ways to support those grieving this loss
- Formal and informal positive psychology mindfulness practices to help heal grief
Mindfulness Skills Development & Living a Mindful Life (MSDL) Retreat
"Transform Your Life with Inner Peace: Join the Mindfulness Skills Development & Living a Mindful Life (MSDL) Retreat for a Journey of Self-Discovery and Serenity!"
Location: Onsite The Pas CWL Retreat House
Estimated length: 12 hrs
Registration - http://www.integrative-mindfulness-inc.com/registration-form.html
This workshop reviews the history, foundational principles and core concepts of mindfulness. It includes a basic introduction to mindfulness-based stress reduction. Approaches to incorporating mindfulness within a day-to-day lifestyle and how to live mindfully psychologically, physically and emotionally are covered. Participants are exposed to how employing self-compassion can assist to reduce stress, depression and anxiety, regulating emotions and improve well-being.
The course offers the following practice sessions: adapting techniques of informal mindfulness practices (50 min); how to start your own personal mindfulness practice (50 min); loving-kindness “meta” practice, experiential exercises in body scan meditation and mindful movement (50 min), and how to create a healthy work-life balance and avoid professional burnout (50 min).
Time is spent discussing neuroscience and mindfulness, neuroplasticity and brain change seen in specific medical and psychological disorders. In addition, the neurobiological evidence for mindfulness in treatment and how mindfulness can help heal loss, grief and trauma/Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is included.
What participants will learn:
Location: Onsite The Pas CWL Retreat House
Estimated length: 12 hrs
Registration - http://www.integrative-mindfulness-inc.com/registration-form.html
This workshop reviews the history, foundational principles and core concepts of mindfulness. It includes a basic introduction to mindfulness-based stress reduction. Approaches to incorporating mindfulness within a day-to-day lifestyle and how to live mindfully psychologically, physically and emotionally are covered. Participants are exposed to how employing self-compassion can assist to reduce stress, depression and anxiety, regulating emotions and improve well-being.
The course offers the following practice sessions: adapting techniques of informal mindfulness practices (50 min); how to start your own personal mindfulness practice (50 min); loving-kindness “meta” practice, experiential exercises in body scan meditation and mindful movement (50 min), and how to create a healthy work-life balance and avoid professional burnout (50 min).
Time is spent discussing neuroscience and mindfulness, neuroplasticity and brain change seen in specific medical and psychological disorders. In addition, the neurobiological evidence for mindfulness in treatment and how mindfulness can help heal loss, grief and trauma/Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is included.
What participants will learn:
- Techniques for informal mindfulness practices
- How to cultivate the Five Core Skills of mindfulness
- Mindful breathing and other practices
- How to use mindfulness and mindful living to manage stress
- Self-soothing calming activities such as using nature and imagery to manage anger, anxiety and stress
- How to heal emotional pain through acceptance, forgiveness and cultivating self-compassion
- Using mindfulness for chronic pain
- How to cultivate awareness of our physical bodies and use mindfulness practices to “lean in” to touch the pain
- Ways to respond to trauma and PTSD arousal, traumatic thoughts and feelings
- How to cultivate kindness and self-compassion for yourself and others
- What science tells us about how mindfulness and mindful living works
- The ways mindfulness can help with a range of extreme emotional states
Healthy Living with Anxiety & Stress Management (HLAS) Training
"Transform Your Life: Discover the Power of Healthy Living with Cutting-Edge Anxiety & Stress Management (HLAS) Training – Your Path to Inner Peace and Resilience!"
Location: Onsite/ Community Visits/ Virtual Meeting
Estimated length: 13 hrs
Registration
http://www.integrative-mindfulness-inc.com/registration-form.html
A discussion of how lifestyle contributes to stress, anxiety and depression is included in this workshop. An explanation of the neurobiological basis of tension, panic, worry and anxiety as well as the purpose of human worry and the methods to manage these feelings is offered. The course reviews how neuroscience can be applied pragmatically to provide effective treatment in addition to why and how counselling and psychotherapy work to “use the brain to change the brain”.
How stress and anxiety manifest when comorbid with depression and the impact of alcohol and other drugs (AOD) dependency is presented. Time is spent considering the physical conditions that mimic panic, stress, anxiety and depression.
The workshop also focuses on the Four Competencies for coping with anxiety and stress management, and how to eliminate stressors and develop healthy anxiety coping strategies. Focus includes ways to manage time, environment and attitude, how to incorporate rest and relaxation, and using an attention restoration practice.
The course teaches Four Lifestyle Changes that are important to reduce stress, anxiety and depression. Other remedies discussed are possible uses for medication, methods that change brain function and Default Mode Network (DMN) for long-term recovery.
What participants will learn:
Location: Onsite/ Community Visits/ Virtual Meeting
Estimated length: 13 hrs
Registration
http://www.integrative-mindfulness-inc.com/registration-form.html
A discussion of how lifestyle contributes to stress, anxiety and depression is included in this workshop. An explanation of the neurobiological basis of tension, panic, worry and anxiety as well as the purpose of human worry and the methods to manage these feelings is offered. The course reviews how neuroscience can be applied pragmatically to provide effective treatment in addition to why and how counselling and psychotherapy work to “use the brain to change the brain”.
How stress and anxiety manifest when comorbid with depression and the impact of alcohol and other drugs (AOD) dependency is presented. Time is spent considering the physical conditions that mimic panic, stress, anxiety and depression.
The workshop also focuses on the Four Competencies for coping with anxiety and stress management, and how to eliminate stressors and develop healthy anxiety coping strategies. Focus includes ways to manage time, environment and attitude, how to incorporate rest and relaxation, and using an attention restoration practice.
The course teaches Four Lifestyle Changes that are important to reduce stress, anxiety and depression. Other remedies discussed are possible uses for medication, methods that change brain function and Default Mode Network (DMN) for long-term recovery.
What participants will learn:
- How to handle cognitive problems of anxiety and panic
- Tools and cognitive methods to decrease generalized anxiety to reduce anxiety-producing perfectionism
- How to eliminate stressors and develop healthy coping strategies
- Techniques such as rational emotive practice and internal dialogue for managing social anxiety
- Cognitive behavioural practices to reduce persistent rumination
- How to induce cognitive change through planned “counter-cognitions”
- Ways to achieve emotional freedom through “Tapping In” techniques
- Bilateral stimulations to reduce or prevent anxiety, worries, tension and vivid experiences
- How to improve cognitive flexibility and creative problem-solving ability
- Mindfulness-based techniques to improve responses to depression and anxiety
- How to change catastrophic thinking by integrating mindfulness-based thinking skills
- Methods to use Mindful Awareness and other mindfulness techniques to improve anxiety, worry, fear and negative thinking patterns
- When medication can assist under medical guidance
Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Awareness (ADAPW) Training
"Empowering Communities to Combat Substance Abuse: Join the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention and Awareness (ADAPW) Training for a Safer, Healthier Tomorrow!"
Location: Onsite/ Community Visits/ Virtual Meeting
Estimated length: 12 hrs
March 18-19 @ 9:00am – 4:00pm
Registration - http://www.integrative-mindfulness-inc.com/registration-form.html
Understanding the dynamics of substance abuse and addiction and the impacts they can have is the basis of this course. Models of the psychology of addiction are presented. This includes the neuroscience of addiction, the disease model of how neurotransmitters work and addiction as a disease.
Time is spent reviewing the myths and facts of addiction, the progression of dependency and the characteristics of the functional addict or alcoholic. The workshop discusses the various substances that can be abused such as alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, stimulants, depressants, narcotics, hallucinogens, designer drugs and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs. The medical consequences of substance abuse and other addictions are a focus. This involves the usual effects of alcohol and other drugs (AOD) dependency as well as the potential psycho-social consequences of substance abuse.
In addition, coping mechanisms to manage stress and improve one’s lifestyle are offered. Finally, the bio-psycho-social-spiritual (BPSS) model of addiction − a strengths-based perspective is reviewed.
What participants will learn:
Location: Onsite/ Community Visits/ Virtual Meeting
Estimated length: 12 hrs
March 18-19 @ 9:00am – 4:00pm
Registration - http://www.integrative-mindfulness-inc.com/registration-form.html
Understanding the dynamics of substance abuse and addiction and the impacts they can have is the basis of this course. Models of the psychology of addiction are presented. This includes the neuroscience of addiction, the disease model of how neurotransmitters work and addiction as a disease.
Time is spent reviewing the myths and facts of addiction, the progression of dependency and the characteristics of the functional addict or alcoholic. The workshop discusses the various substances that can be abused such as alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, stimulants, depressants, narcotics, hallucinogens, designer drugs and over-the-counter (OTC) drugs. The medical consequences of substance abuse and other addictions are a focus. This involves the usual effects of alcohol and other drugs (AOD) dependency as well as the potential psycho-social consequences of substance abuse.
In addition, coping mechanisms to manage stress and improve one’s lifestyle are offered. Finally, the bio-psycho-social-spiritual (BPSS) model of addiction − a strengths-based perspective is reviewed.
What participants will learn:
- The dynamics of addictions within a family
- The role of codependency in addiction
- What the progress of substance abuse dependency looks like
- The possible medical impacts of addiction
- How the process of recovery works
- What the Stages of Change are and what level of involvement is helpful to the addict
- How to identify drug and alcohol abuse in family members and friends
- How to identify drug and alcohol abuse in co-workers
- Ways to prevent substance abuse at home and in school
- Addiction and treatment support in the workplace
- How to improve their awareness of drug and alcohol abuse, counselling and prevention
- Ways to manage stress and improve coping skills